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Slothpoke

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Game Screen Too Small
« on: February 02, 2012, 07:57:29 pm »
   Ummm not sure if this posting topic thingie is working ;p but i'm trying out dwarf fortress for the first time and after loading up the game the game screen is tiny in windowed mode, taking up only 1/4th of the screen, going thru init file {Data/Init/init.txt} found a option that set the starting windowed/fullscreen setting

   Full screen crashes the game and none of the X and Y resolution thingies work.. I was able to ummm switch the game to a full windowed screen but once again it made no difference.. the text didn't change in size and just left the game with a large black border around the side hmmmm..  with a small monitor already is there any way to make text and graphics bigger in the game?

   i would include a shiny picture of what the game looks like but I don't know how to insert pictures.. it looks too complicated
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Re: Game Screen Too Small
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2012, 08:18:17 pm »
try resizing the screen then hold ctrl then scroll with mouse wheel. See if that work.
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Re: Game Screen Too Small
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2012, 08:24:05 pm »
Are you running the SDL version or the Legacy version?
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Re: Game Screen Too Small
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2012, 11:07:27 pm »
   Well it was a bit tricky to do but did try the resizing thing with ctrl mousy.. but ummm.. it seems the game is in max zoom already sadly :-[

   And yeah I'm using the is the SDL version in linux, I downloaded the ummm legacy version but had the same problem :-{

   I'm did a bit of hmmm looking on the internet for inserting a picture.. think i got it working.. it's a picture of me trying to get it into fullscreen :p with the first loading of the game it didn't have the large border to the right and bottom of the screen and instead just the desktop showing so u can see what I mean by a rly small screen ;p



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Re: Game Screen Too Small
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2012, 11:09:46 pm »
oh! it doesn't fill the screen until you actually start playing, don't worry jsut try it!
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Re: Game Screen Too Small
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2012, 03:34:23 am »
Yes, certain screens in the game are limited to a certain size (80x25 tiles, I think). These include the world gen, embark, trade, military and several others.
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Re: Game Screen Too Small
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2012, 08:54:22 am »
   Aha oks.. thank fer that.. works fine now ^_^
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